Original Post
Written by
Edited August 19, 2022
at 09:58 PM
by
Just got an email from Costco about In-Warehouse Hot Buys starting on 8/20. The following link should update on 7/23:
https://www.costco.com/warehouse-hot-buys.html
Here is a link to the email I received:
https://ibb.co/VL2c60h
Some items on sale include:
Enchilada Bake with Rotisserie Chicken: $3 OFF Per Package
Red Grapes, Organic or Conventional: $1.50 - $2 OFF
Organic Kiolbassa Beef Sausage: $5 OFF
Health Warrior Oatmeal: $4.50 OFF
Nature's Intent Seed and Nut Keto Bomb: $3 OFF
Kirkland Signature Breaded Panko Shrimp: $4 OFF
and
more [ibb.co]
92 Comments
Your comment cannot be blank.
Featured Comments
So, is the Costco Kiolbassa real kielbasa? I was grew up in a Polish neighborhood, and the kielbasa was bought from Polish butchers. Each butcher had their own recipe, and they were all different. You choose the one you liked best.
The Costco Kiolbassa brand is made from beef, while the kielbasa from my old neighborhood was made from pork. I don't live near my old neighborhood, so I buy the Costco brands.
https://en.wikipedia.or
I used to buy the Kirkland canned chicken breast to mix in with my dog's food. I picked up a 6-pack on sale for around $6.50 just before the pandemic. Really regretted not getting more. The price peaked at just below $20. And now has come back down to about $14-$15.
They are bending over backwards to keep the hot rotisserie chicken at $4.99. Probably selling it at a loss. It works out to less than $2/lb. Only a part of it is breast meat, but I'd estimate you get about 1 lbs of breast meat from it. Versus about $5/lb for their frozen chicken breasts. So if you eat a lot of chicken, the rotisserie chicken may be the better deal. For the same price you're essentially getting the rest of the chicken for free.
Wholesale price of eggs (i.e. what the store pays) is currently at around $2/doz, closer to $3/doz for large and jumbo.
https://www.ams.usda.go
When I worked at a hotel/restaurant 15 years ago, we bought the eggs directly from a local egg farm (they were only about 5 miles away). The price was usually around $1.50 per gross (144 eggs), or a bit over 12 cents/dozen. We'd get a couple carts full of racks of eggs each week, and it'd be about $100-$150. Packaging, distribution, and handling costs make up the bulk of the retail price.
Crabbing is a fuel-intensive operation. The crab boats burn a lot of fuel searching for and catching the crab. Unlike factory ships which can process, package, and freeze the fish aboard the ship so aren't really time-constrained, crab boats have to head back to port at high speed (burning lots more fuel) to deliver the crab alive to a processor (the meat begins decomposing very quickly if it dies). I think we all know what's happened to fuel prices.
Costco will refund the price difference within 30 days of the original purchase date. If you don't have a receipt, they can look up your membership card's purchase history and find it there for a return. I imagine they can do it for a price adjustment too, though I've never tried. I've noticed though that they now make your purchase history available if you login to their website (so you no loner need to keep the paper receipts around - you can simply print out a new copy at home if you need it).
If you're beyond 30 days, for packaged goods like the beef jerky or dual air fryer you can usually exploit their return policy. Simply bring your old receipt, buy the item on sale, take it straight to their return counter, and return it using the old receipt. Presto - you've converted your previous full-price purchase to a sale price purchase. I try to keep it within reason and usually only do this if I'd been meaning to get a price adjustment, but kept forgetting to bring the old receipt until I was past the 30 day window. Malicious exploitation pushes the cost into higher regular prices and membership fees, so doesn't really save you money.
Co-ops pass along their costs too. The only difference between a co-op and corporation is that there's no profit. Which is good in that the prices are lower. But bad in that there's no incentive for the co-op to stock items which are in higher demand. Whoever is in charge of running the co-op just stocks whatever they feel they should. If it takes more work to obtain the higher-demand item, they may not bother since there's no there's no benefit to them them for the extra work.
It's only charities which don't pass along costs. They pay for the costs via donations or an endowment fund. Someone always has to pay the piper. Even the student load "forgiveness" programs aren't really forgiveness. They're simply shifting the cost of repaying the loans away from the people who took out the loans, onto all taxpayers. Or (in cases where the loans were made with criminal malfeasance) back onto the entity which made the loans or received the loan money as payment.
Sign up for a Slickdeals account to remove this ad.
I wouldn't try it, not spelled right
Pacific Gold is often soft and mushy to me. Not very tasteful either. I never get it anymore.
I've had some good bags of Oberto (average texture and flavor) and also some bad ones.
That said, it seems that Costco will only have Oberto OR Pacific Gold at any one location. So you don't have a choice anyways.
TLDR get the Garlic. Skip the Organic Beef Kiolbassa.
Sign up for a Slickdeals account to remove this ad.
Our community has rated this post as helpful. If you agree, why not thank McRingRing
Our community has rated this post as helpful. If you agree, why not thank abstractj
Focusing on the deals. I bought the Kiolbassa Beef Sausage and it's good. Way better than the grocery stores big brand. Depends on where you're located, the garlic ones may not be available, but the regular ones are just as good. Great for Labor Day grilling.
The garlic ones are delicious.
I like it. Sure you could make it yourself for less money, but it's an easy and filling weeknight meal with minimal cleanup.
Oh, one thing that has more than doubled in price is the bucket of pool chlorine tablets. Used to be $89.99/40# bucket, and they'd have a $15-$20off coupon at some point. Now it's $189.99/bucket and absolutely no coupon. You saw right, a HUNDRED DOLLARS MORE -- I did a double take. However, it's not their fault, the price of chlorine has gone up that much due to some shortage or something. Elsewhere, that same smaller (36#) bucket is going for $200-$220 and higher.
But for me, even if I never bought another thing, Costco has been absolutely worth it for the gas. It used to be cheaper sometimes, and not the cheapest other times. But hands down post pandemic, it has been the cheapest, and sometimes by FAR, like 70c-$1/gal cheaper here for me in the CA Bay Area. When gas was >$6/gal, my Costco was holding the line at $5.99. Only when gas was approaching $7+/gal did Costco increase to like $6.5 or so. That alone saved me enough to cover the membership fee in 2-3 months.
Sign up for a Slickdeals account to remove this ad.
We were just there. If I recall correctly the bakes were $20 give or take a few bucks per pack.